Donno how rich but Saw some model and photographer doing a photo shoot on a scenic overlook. They had a lot of equipment and she was doing wardrobe changes. Someone’s unattended large dog comes up right next to her and takes a big shit. Must’ve gone on for over a minute. While I cried laughing and they could hear me.
And what did the model or photographer do to warrant this being an example of they deserved it
Obliviously junking up a scenic area with equipment for an extended period of time, and no doubt expecting exclusive space to do so qualifies in my book. May all the dogs shit on this level of entitlement.
Pathetic take. Some of you are clearly miserable ppl who just want to hate on ppl doing stuff.
They just seemed super wealthy or famous or something by the car and clothes
Adding due to downvotes that only one of us was there and even where there is, so I’ll laugh at the armchair analysis
Eh even poor models will try to have expensive looking clothes. It’s extremely unlikely a random photo shoot in public will involve a model who actually makes decent money. Photographers are also notoriously poor. Maybe they make bad financial decisions but hardly seems like they’re rich.
Poor models ?
Yes? Do you think all the people in every magazine you’ve seen, or product advertisement, was rich? It’s rare for a model to actually be rich, usually modeling has to be a side gig that they can use to support themselves, it’s rarely a full time job.
They’re richer than us, that I am certain of by 100% I’m tired of pretending otherwise
I hope the photographer snapped a few photos. Seems like a once in a lifetime situation.
I’m a wedding photographer, a few months back I had a pooping dog behind a bride and groom and you better believe I took pictures! We all had a pretty good laugh about it especially because it was a private wedding venue and even the venue owners had no idea where the random dog came from but he just popped and disappeared lol
I’m a union organizer, so I got to see some truly golden moments. My favorite was during a campaign, we took over a Q&A session with a member of the C-suite present. In a previous meeting he tried to convince me of some bs, so I asked him directly “why did you lie to me?” during this take over. The look on his face was priceless, and it took him over a minute to respond pathetically with “I don’t appreciate being called a liar”
Can you tell us any more about the lie and the rest of the response? Sounds juicy
Yea for sure! We were organizing around performance metrics, quotas, discipline, etc for quite a while. My work is in QA, where quotas are actually really bad for software development. We had been trying to get management to research and implement modern QA practices that would reduce/eliminate quotas, without much success. We also wanted progressive discipline with real guidance, because if you don’t meet metrics then the performance improvement plan (pip) was really just a do-or-die meet the metrics for 10 days or get fired.
In the previous meeting, it wasn’t a take over but coworkers and I relentlessly asked about pips, metrics, etc. We were very clearly getting under their skin, to the point where he asked me how I felt pips should work. He was probably thinking I never planned that far ahead and would discredit myself, but I had done significant research on modern QA management techniques and gave an overview of my minimum for a 3 step pip. Right before he ended the meeting, he essentially “confirmed” that we do it exactly like that, no sword of Damocles or anything.
Of course having done the legwork to actually talk to employees that had gone through the process, we knew that it was total horseshit. Just to be sure, we talked to a few more people to confirm that pips were still being used to cut people for cause instead of improving their metrics before planning the takeover. To open the meeting, I asked this to the COO:
I’d like to preface my question by saying thank you for hosting these sessions again, and preemptively note that a lot of us are here to discuss PIPs. In the last Q&A session I attended, I was told by you that PIPs follow a progressive discipline model. However, we’re aware that most if not all employees that fail a PIP are terminated immediately, and multiple employees have been fired shortly after passing a PIP for failing to meet productivity expectations. Why did you lie to me?
His face went beet red and you could see the anger build in his eyes. After about a minute, he responds with “I don’t appreciate being called a liar. You’re hostility isn’t welcome and I reject the question”. After that, you could cut the tension with a knife. I reiterated my question that pips don’t work the way he said they do, but he continued to refuse it until I moved on to the many other “hostile” questions I had.
For the aftermath, he lied to us again in that meeting when someone uninvolved with the take over asked about remote work, and said there’s no plans to change anything for the foreseeable future, before RTO was announced a week later. There was another meeting about RTO with him that I attended, and he made a vague threat about “respectability” and ending the meeting if he felt disrespected after looking at the attendees. I wanted to ask a legit question over mic, and he ignored me until it was becoming obvious to others in the meeting. He stopped doing all q&a stuff after this for some reason.
Nice! Well done, very brave. Good on you for doing the research too, you couldn’t be easily slammed down.
I love you for this
I hear these isolated stories of bravery and no-BS defiance of corporate overlords, and for the longest time I’ve been thinking:
How do we start an organization that could train people to handle these jerks like you did, and plant these newly educated, hardened, prepared badasses-like-you in every organization in the country? These C-suite pricks need to be made famous, treated to detailed records and long memories of their every lie and falsehood toward their workers.
I’ve learned professional union agitators are called “salts” which sounds awesome, but their impact isn’t very well understood or recognized, I think.
Well, I’m sure YOU didn’t appreciate him being a fucking liar either so i guess it’s even XD
I do events, one of the events was a medical conference. We had an exec for a pharmaceutical company presenting and he wanted the entire stage layout changed 45 minutes before the presentation. Like completely different projectors, screens, mics, that sort of thing. Not a quick fix by any means. We told him it wasn’t possible, his response,
“Anything is possible if money and physics allow it, and I have money.”
Their pharmaceutical company wasn’t invited back to the next years event. We were.
Was the layout changed for them?
It was not, the event organizers were not happy with that statement as we try to accommodate and had made all of the presentations up till that point go off without a hitch.
Good! Glad to hear it
I bet it was.
So, how much you guys charged him for the layout change?
We looked at our client, the event organizer, who was the one paying us, not the presenter. They were not happy with that statement.
“They get what they get, don’t even bother moving the furniture.”
Yes ma’am.
“Physics does not allow it”
“Biology doesn’t allow it.”
- “…what biology???”
“I am biology.”
“So make it rain and then we’ll talk about physics.”
He forgot the most important variable in that equation, and it’s time. I continually have to remind clients of that. You can throw more people and money at a problem but you can’t get 9 people with uteruses to give birth to a baby in 1 month.
He included time by saying physics. However he said money and physics, not or physics. He has money, sure, but time, under the banner of physics, makes the task impossible.
We’re all thinking it
When Link charged up his hearts and took down Ganon?
I worked security for a pro baseball stadium. Some guy and his teenage sons had front row season tickets behind home base. The boys were underage and openly drinking alcohol. We went to tell them the kids had to cut it out.
This guy (who was drunk too) throws a fit that we dared tell him what he could do. He starts shouting “do you know how much I pay for these tickets!? My sons can do whatever they want” blah blah blah.
I wave down the security head and he radios for the police to come deal with it. The man and his sons were marched out to boos from the crowd. They were ejected from the game and fined. They potentially lost their season ticket rights too, but I don’t know for sure. I never saw them again though.
Good on you, fuck em
Most states allow minors to consume alcohol in some manner if parents are consenting and present. I mostly hearing about that applying at home or in bars and restaurants, but I’m not sure how it works for baseball stadiums.
The stadium required anyone drinking to show valid ID and get a wristband. The city keeps a very tight watch on the stadium following the laws under threat of getting their liquor licence pulled. In this state a liquor licence can be pulled if the facility knowingly allows minors to drink alcohol, even if the guardian of the minor permits it.
oh yeah no shot the stadium would risk losing that. the dude is kind of an idiot for thinking the money he spent on seats would compare to what the stadium earns in beer money as a whole. must be new money. old money knows how to exploit people and stay in power; new money just exploits and throws it away
Texas allows underage people to drink if they are with their parent, guardian or spouse (if the spouse is 21). However, the establishment can still refuse to serve them. And in fact most places will refuse because the risks are just too high.
Nice…
However, poor parents would have likely gone to prison and had their children taken away from them.
But poor parents wouldn’t have been in those seats and a large reason we cared so much was the people in those seats were shown on TV each time a player was up to bat.
About seven years ago when Trump was president the first time, my wife and I went to see Roger Waters in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
We bought 7th row seats but had looked at 1st row and they were something like $800 each so we passed. Well, day of the show and you can only imagine the massive vitriol spewing from Waters and the huge screen behind him for Trump. He had an inflatable pig drone with TRUMP on it flying around the arena and all kinds of elaborate props.
A group of four dressed in cowboy regalia, presumably MAGA, walked out from the front row, enthusiastically flipping Roger Waters off as they did it. The seats alone were $3200ish.
Roger Waters and Pink Floyd. What the hell did they expect?
Found this Australian video with clips from that tour. Being beneath the giant laser pyramid was awe inspiring. Waters says, “Haven’t you been listening all these years?”
No, people don’t listen to the lyrics.
No, people don’t listen to the lyrics.
“Man, when did RATM become so political?”
Must’ve had a bad day. I saw him not too long ago and he did some minor commentary on political issues, but there was no ranting. Waters is all over the place politically sometimes. Great show though.
Saw the same show in Canada sitting in row 6. Waters was freakin’ incredible!
That’s fucking funny…
Roger Waters and Pink Floyd.
Not even… It was him alone, which is always far more political and vitriolic. Everybody knows this. These were likely boomers who liked Dark Side of the Moon when they were kids, and 50+ years later decided to waste a shit ton of money on tickets, knowing nothing about the man.
Hey now, I’m a Boomer. We’re rare, but there are a few liberal Boomer Oklahomans. Haha
Do the five of you get together for coffee?
No, because we can never agree on where to go.
Thank you for your service
Blues Traveler had a hit song that is a 3 minute essay about people not listening to the lyrics. It was called Hook.
Hum… not really, it’s more about how a song works lyrically and a bit musically, it’s like a magician showing you how he does the trick, but you’re still amazed at the trick, as it somehow keeps working on you. It is fascinating that the lyrics also point to the fact that the listener brings most of the meaning and emotion to the song, not the song writers. Which is true, I had no idea Pearl Jam’s Red Mosquito was about sitting sick in a hotel room with a literal Mosquito. I thought it was a very complex song about the concepts of God and The Devil.
At a concert and saw the police approach and start questioning a young drunk guy (out doors, before show started). They basically said he had to leave on account of being too intoxicated and he started getting mouthy. I’ve never seen the police react so quickly the moment he finished saying, “My dad is a top class expensive lawyers and he’ll have your asrses for this” - he was in the ground and handcuffed within seconds. In the next few seconds he was back on his feet and being escorted to the paddy wagon.
Honestly I think it’s terrible that we think it’s perfectly normal and okay for cops to physically force someone to the ground with no mention of resistance.
“Keep your hands where I can see them and I’m going to cuff you while I search your pockets.”
“Please get in the back of the car” while lightly holding the inside of someone’s elbow should be all that is needed after checking their person for any weapons.
There was definitely resistance from the young guy. It just didn’t make my story. The police in the country where I’m from have a much higher standard of engagement with people. Their actions we well justified.
Super rich guy tried to pick up my then girlfriend at an industry event after party kind of thing. She was not impressed by any of his shit. The look of disappointment on his face after showing off his $250k watch still makes me smile all these years later.
I’m not even gonna lie, chief, if somebody shows me any kind of luxury fashion like that and boasts that it costs more money than I’ll ever see in my lifetime, I’m just gonna ask if it was worth the human suffering incurred in the making of these luxury goods.
There are apparently a surprisingly different levels of strata of “rich people”. The groups in the middle range are apparently the most desperate to appear to be in the higher ranges of rich people.
So if someone comes up to you and brags about their $250k watch, you already know that they’re not in the “rich rich” group, and they desperately want you to think they are. So hit them where it hurts with a reply like: “Ahh, I understand now. You’re not really rich. People that actually are rich don’t tell others how much they paid for a watch. Maybe someday you’ll get to that level like really rich people. Until then, could you please leave me alone?”
I had a boss years ago and I knew everything about his financial situation because he had hired me to trade S&P500 futures with/for him. He had about $20 million in stock, a beach house in South Carolina worth a couple million, and he owned a temp agency that paid him about $40,000 a month, so he was certainly rich by any normal human standards. But he had moved from San Francisco and was friends with a bunch of venture capital types who were all worth more than a couple of hundred million dollars, and it was obvious that his (relative) poverty absolutely burned him to his core. This was why he imagined that day-trading futures was going to be his key to the really big time - he could never see that the brokerages we dealt with were just scamming him.
Money talks, but wealth whispers.
$10 millionaires don’t brag
$100 millionaires brag about their “wealth”
$1 billionaires brag about their “intelligence”
$1 billionaires brag about their “intelligence”
They say “intelligence” to make you think “smarts” when it’s really “membership to a market manipulation and insider trading club.”
Yup that sums it up.
Or you could just start planning to rob the fucker.
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Is anyone into watches at the age when rich men try to pick them up? I could be easily impressed by a watch now (a personalised G-Shock $50-300, any diapason $500-2k, an enthusiastic watch geek explaining their Jaeger-Lecoultre…), but not part of the target demographic.
Personally I’m more impressed by a $1k Garmin than a $250k Rolex or whatever.
Ive been pretty impressed by this 20 year old knockoff Victorinox I have that cost like nineteen dollars originally and yet somehow keeps perfect time.
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Got excited enthusing about watches I thought are cool. Very long and deraily for the original topic. But in summary I think there’s a factor to the dance of advanced mechanics, so to say, and the deliberate absence of contemporary smart functions. A “soul”, if you will. Someone showing you their watch can be like them telling you their favourite Linux distro, it says a lot about a person, and just having one suggests they may be “my people”. 😅
Though Rolexes are imho fugly often gaudy pieces that do have in-house movements but it clearly isn’t their main selling point. Please don’t use them as an example. I don’t know what the Linux equivalent would be, ChromeOS?
Oh damn, that’s a great comment! I’m glad you put it up, if only in summary form.
Someone showing you their watch can be like them telling you their favourite Linux distro, it says a lot about a person
Hahaha. Yeah absolutely. And indeed, that’s sort of what I was getting at with my earlier comment. I’m a runner and triathlete. I can geek out about someone’s Garmin and relate to that in a way I just don’t care about any other timepiece. That’s what my watch says about me, and I’m very conscious of it. It doesn’t feel like being a “watch person” so much as being an amateur athlete.
I don’t know what the Linux equivalent would be
Ubuntu. It’s 100% Ubuntu. Which, fwiw, is my Linux distro of choice. I like Linux, but I don’t care about it in a meaningful way. I can count on one hand the number of hours I’ve spent using a non-Debian based Linux distro (Android excluded, of course). Ubuntu, or some closely-related Debian-based distro, gets the job done. It lets me have the low level easy terminal access I don’t get on Windows and only kinda-sorta get on Mac, and any problem I have is exceptionally easy to Google because it’s what all the tutorials and questions are geared towards.
As for not using Rolex, unfortunately for better or worse, they are the by-word for “fancy watch”. It’s the one brand everyone will have heard of and understand basically what it means.
I have some lower-four-figure watches and am always way more impressed by someone with a Casio or non-grand Seiko, they clearly have more sense than me, and excellent taste on top
Gamestop stock boom
But the rich won that one and then enforced regulations to ensure that it couldn’t happen again?
Perhaps, but it exposed some companies, namely Robinhood, as chumps for doing just that. And those that won big by sitting on Gamestop so the other chump couldn’t buy it out chose philanthropy, which is a minor victory in the long run
That video of the rich prick at a coffee shop who throws something at the worker and then gets put in a headlock and held on the ground and struggles weakly
Are you talking about Joel Michael Singer? The Joel Michael Singer who headbutts people and then gets his ass locked and then begs his daddy to use his money and influence to remove the evidence from the internet? That Joel Michael Singer? Because that guy is Joel Michael Singer, and that’s the only Joel Michael Singer I have ever heard of.
I can confirm that it was Joel Michael Singer. Joel Michael Singer was the guy in the video about Joel Michael Singer. We must not forget Joel Michael Singer.
I didn’t know his name was Joel Michael Singer. But I’m going to remember that. Joel Michael Singer.
I have seen the video before, but did not know his name was Joel Michael Singer. So I had to search for his name, Joel Michael Singer, and click on a few links to learn more. I also rewatched the video with Joel Michael Singer headbutting people and then getting taken down.
If it wasn’t Joel Michel Singer, then there must be two separate incidents that happened where one was clearly Joel Michel Singer and the other wasn’t Joel Michel Singer.
That’s weird, maybe they’re referring to another Joel Michel Singer?
We took a trip to Chicago and decided to go to Navy Pier. Traffic was basically gridlocked and the car behind us was not happy that my friend didn’t break the law and block an intersection. After the light turned green, the idiot took his massive, shiny, brand new, white pickup truck onto the SIDEWALK to cut in front of us.
When we got to the parking garage, there was a HUGE sign saying the clearance was 6ft 3in and tall vehicles needed to go to a different garage. The idiot didn’t read it and, even with the windows shut, we heard the screeching and scraping of his roof on the top of the structure.
The best part was watching him back out, hearing more scraping, seeing his surprised pikachu face, and the disappointment on the face of the woman in the passenger seat.
“A team of hitmen” LMAO!
Trading Places
SELL 200 APRIL AT ONE FORTY TWO!
One dollar.
Thank you, Louis.
Some prick in a Porsche demanded that he get to pick his own spot in the valet lot where I work. The valet guy just grinning and shaking his head while the rich dude had a meltdown was some good schadenfreude. Then i got the spot he wanted because the valet guy was my homie.
Had to look up Schadenfreude and I think its my new favorite phrase:
It’s a valet service, why the fuck do you care which spot? You’re not going to or from it.
Its because certain spots let you retain your keys and no attendants can move your car. Its a weird garage
Huh, that does sound odd
Doesn’t that defeat the point of a valet? Or is the idea that they just park your car and then hand your keys back…?
It was set up more to manage the parking shortage problem in the high rise i work in. Its a stop gap and is not a good one.
Isn’t that just parking with extra costs at that point? Lol
It is 🙃
Reminds me of the police chef meltdown in Fear & Loathing and the clerks response
Shoe at G.W.'S head
Dubya dodged them shoes like he dodged the draft.
“God called me a duck that day.”
